Some pictures and a short video of Viktoria, Aliya and Katya Kramarenko are available here. The girls are benefitting from a last few rays of sun before returning to chilly Moscow for winter training.
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The location, Sochi, will of course be the home of next year's Winter Olympics. Russia's oligarchs and government have invested in significant changes to the infrastructure there, including the building of training facilities. Andrei Rodionenko has suggested some of these be adapted post-Games to provide the Russian gymnasts with a mild weather winter training retreat, so no doubt this publicity is part of that lobby, as well as providing motivation to the team.
